Chapter Thirty-Five: The Water Source Problem

  Su Haicheng didn't ask about the situation underwater as I had expected, instead he asked: "You're a medic, why did those people suffocate? Carbon dioxide?"

  "No! Not carbon dioxide! Not carbon dioxide poisoning! Absolutely not!" He suddenly raised his head and roared at Su Haicheng, "The superiors told us that nine years ago, just like nine years ago, it was carbon dioxide poisoning. No! Really not! It's sleep apnea! After falling asleep, they forgot to breathe. Breathing stopped. This... this... water source, our captain suspected the water source. But it was too late, we drank the water from there."

  Su Haicheng suddenly grabbed him and lifted him up: "Why did you drink that water?! You're a medic, you should bring your own water, why did you drink that water?!"

  "I don't know, I don't know." He suddenly lifted his head and smiled at Su Haicheng: "Didn't you also drink that water?"

  Su Haicheng let go of him and took a step back. Ah Tian asked in a low voice, "Haicheng, think about it, did you drink that water?"

  "Is it the lake water?" I asked. By the time Su Haicheng and I arrived at the lakeside, we already knew that the corpses would end up in the lake, so we didn't drink from it. But judging by its clarity, combined with the surrounding scenery, if we hadn't known that there were corpses in the water, I think we would have definitely used it to cook noodles.

  The medic said: "Right, it's lake water. The tap water in their village is also drawn from the lake."

  Kakaxi jumped down from the chair beside him and shouted: "It can't be. There are other villages nearby. Besides, why did the same thing happen nine years later? If there's a problem with the water, it should have been that everyone in the surrounding area died on the same day, or some people didn't drink water that day?"

  "Shooting star!" I said, "Sometimes, when everything is fine, a shooting star falls in that direction and triggers something. The nine-year shooting star just happens to be one cycle, returning to the original position where things happened."

  "Fourth sister! That day, those who drank water shouldn't be just from that one village, people from other villages must have also drunk water."

  "Shooting star, disaster is in their place, they will have an accident. I also can't say it clearly, anyway, it's roughly like that."

  Kakaxi looked around at everyone and said in a low voice: "Can we move our feet over there and talk for a bit?"

  He said that and first left the circle, sitting on the sofa in the corner of the bar. Everyone else also gathered around, of course this everyone did not include the medic.

  Kakaxi lowered his voice and said, "I suggest sending him to the hospital for a check-up. It might be tetrodotoxin. We were worried for nothing. I said we should send this dead person to the hospital, but you all disagreed." As he spoke, his eyes told us that the dead person he was referring to was Su Haicheng. "Now heaven is helping us again, and another dead person has been sent over. Can't we try?"

  "What you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others."

  "But 41st sister, don't you think it's more suitable for us to be entangled with that flying star? Science is sometimes more useful than you think."

  "Useful?" Ah Tian raised his voice, "I also disagree with this. If science is useful, then who was it that said carbon dioxide suffocation at the beginning? Don't believe in official explanations, they're not reliable."

  The boss said, "I agree with what Kakaxi said. If we don't try, how do we know it's not possible? Or we can think of another way, draw his blood and send it for research. If you're still worried, then spend the money to have an autopsy done. Even if they find out something abnormal, we won't be afraid of them coming after us."

  The boss also expressed his opinion and ended, everyone looked at Su Haicheng, he had a special identity in this matter, and his words were more weighty. He hesitated for a moment, turned back to look at the medical soldier on that side, and suddenly shouted: "He's gone!"

  "Damn it!" Ah Tian roared, rushing to the counter and grabbing his gun as he stormed out of the bar. But at this time, the empty bar had no cars in sight.

  We followed him out and had already lost all hope of finding him. A few people returned to the bar with their heads hung low, and Tian grabbed Kakashi's collar and said: "You little devil, are you in cahoots with him? Taking advantage of the opportunity to let him leave?"

  "Let go! I didn't think he'd run either." Kakashi, although slightly weaker physically, had to look up at A when looking at him, but it didn't weaken his aura one bit. This was a habit from being a hacker, on the net he was the boss. In reality, he wouldn't be weak either.

  A Tian walked into the bar and poured us a drink. I sat next to Su Haicheng and asked, "How did you guys meet him?"

  "I came to Ah Tian's place and happened to see him at the KFC across the street, looking at a woman with a child inside. I guess it was one of his relatives. Taking advantage of his distraction, we grabbed him. He didn't want things to get out of hand either, so he followed us quietly."

  "Why didn't he show up and go see his family instead?" I muttered to myself. Just like Su Haicheng, he came back, preferring to find me, whom he had met only twice in that village, rather than going home to see his mom and grandfather. Wasn't Xueyun the same? He came back, but just lingered around here, looking at Boss without wanting to formally meet him.

  The boss took over the wine glass handed over by A Tian, walked to a nearby sofa, and said: "I don't know if Sakura Xue is also watching me in some corner?"

  Kakaxi took the wine glass: "I'm still calmer, this matter has nothing to do with me, I'm just curious, so I can calmly suggest. Let's take some blood from that dead person and check it out. Maybe the doctors and nurses in the hospital are not as diligent as we think, they just finish checking and don't bother to investigate anything. It's all our own self-deception."

  Atian also pushed the wine to me and Su Haicheng, then took the wine and walked over: "The equipment is almost ready, right? In addition to the key diving equipment, there are also those for dealing with the big snake on that side. Tsk, thinking of that snake being so big and so many, my scalp is numb. Last time we went, we didn't encounter snakes, but this time, it's uncertain. Prepare more antivenom, it's a lifesaver."

  The boss nodded: "The medicine for driving snakes is also ready. Can we drive the car directly to the lake and get off at the lake? Otherwise, we can't use the diving equipment to dive into the water. The diving equipment must be flipped over from the boat. We can only use inflatable boats. Inflating is a problem."

  They were discussing over there. My eyes were fixed on Su Haicheng's profile, his hand holding a wine glass, with facial features that were very three-dimensional and long fingers that gave off a strong feeling.

  I don't know when he turned his head and looked at me, I was a little frightened and shifted my gaze.

  Kakaxi jumped to my side at this time: "Sister 41," his hand climbed onto my shoulder, and he whispered in my ear: "Looking at the two of you, it's... Haha, got together."

  "What's wrong?" I glared at him.

  "Isn't it obvious? You two are both out of your minds. What's the point of this? What does it feel like to be with a dead person?"

  I turned to him, smiling gently: "Want to know? Go buy a corpse. Didn't the news say that somewhere, 36,000 yuan for a fresh female corpse?"

  "Ugh, sis, don't disgust me. I really want to have an academic discussion with you. Look at our graduation thesis, if it's about..."

  He was still talking there, and Ah Tian on the other side shouted to him: "Kakashi, tomorrow you go buy cinnabar, ask for more. After buying it, bring it over and throw it in my car. Or else when we really set off, I'll forget."

  "Got it," he replied, turning his head back and continuing to talk about his graduation thesis. To think that his carelessness almost got us all killed by the lake a few days later.

  Although we were speaking in hushed tones, Su Haicheng was sitting right next to me, so he must have heard us. Just as Kakashi was about to continue questioning us, he suddenly put down the cup in his hand, reached out and wrapped his arm around me, then directly pulled me outside.

  Before Kaka Xi could react, we had already left. He yelled behind us: "I knew it, definitely a big deal, do friends need to use such tactics?"